What kind of mandate does a landslide election victory earn when the nation’s vote is paradoxically almost evenly divided?

The extension of the North West Shelf gas project underscores the urgent need for nationally legislated plans for climate resilience and adaptation ...

A reflection on how early-life trauma might not just prepare us to cope with danger and anguish but attract us to it ...

The musicologist Lawrence Kramer dates the “invention” of listening to the 18 th century, alongside the concept of the inner self. In his 2007 book Why Classical Music Still Matters, he writes, “All ...

In the middle of the night, in the company of “C”, an animal activist, he goes into a turkey shed to see what factory farming is like. He is distressed by the numbers of obviously sick and dead birds ...

Mercy Place is closing down. I talked to the man ...

The minimalist works of this Melbourne-based artist derive from her pursuit of the most authentic and primitive expression If there is a difference between Elizabeth Newman’s drawings and her ...

Looking for dinosaur bones with the volunteer whose prehistoric amphibian discovery became Victoria’s fossil emblem A day before roads clogged with Labour Day long weekenders, I travelled to an ...

Musician Warren Ellis visits the animal sanctuary he helped establish in southern Sumatra for a documentary directed by Justin Kurzel Looking through the trees and across the narrow brown river, a ...

Low-budget Australian New Wave throwbacks The Surfer and Dangerous Animals deliver dark stories of violent parochialism on the coast ...